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''unit process
'' is one or more grouped operations in a manufacturing system that can be defined and separated from others.
In
life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment or LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the Product lifecycle, life cycle of a commercial product, Process lifecycle, process, or ...
(LCA) and
ISO
ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization.
ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance
* Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007
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14040,
ISO Online Browsing Platform (OBP)-ISO 14040:2006(en)
/ref> a unit process is defined as "smallest element considered in the life cycle inventory analysis
Inventory analysis is one of the branches of Operation Research which deals in studying and understanding the stock/product mix combined with the knowledge of the demand for stock/product
Product may refer to:
Business
* Product (business), an it ...
for which input and output data are quantified".
See also
* Unit operation
In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. Unit operations involve a physical change or chemical transformation such as separation, crystallization, evaporation, filtration, polymerization, isomerizat ...
References
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